Brande Monet Otis
Postdoctoral Fellow
- brande.otis@northwestern.edu
- 1860 Campus Drive, Crowe Hall, 5th Floor
Research Interests:
Black urban education
Anti-blackness in education
Youth dreaming and Black futurities
Black childhood(s)
Qualitative Methodologies: Narrative Inquiry, Ethnography
Disability studies
About:
Brande M. Otis is a scholar of Black education, methodology, and Black childhood. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow within the Department of Black studies as Northwestern University. She received her PhD in Education from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Education and Information Studies, where she focused in Urban Schooling. She is currently working alongside Drs. kihana miraya ross, Sepehr Vakil, and Nichole Pinkard on a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to support the development of STEM Education for Black students in Evanston.
Her scholarship has been supported by the Scholarship for the Study of Black Lives.